Two suspected militants killed in police raid in Bangladesh
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DHAKA -- Two suspected militants blew themselves up on Sunday when counter-terrorism police stormed a house in western Bangladesh, police said, the latest in a series of raids on Islamist hideouts.
Police said the two men killed themselves by detonating explosives as officers launched an early morning raid in a village in Jhenidah district, about 100 miles (160 km) west of the capital Dhaka after a tip-off.
Two police officers were also seriously injured as the militants opened fire and exploded bombs, district police chief Mizanur Rahman told reporters.
Rahman said they were members of a faction of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh group, known as New JMB, blamed for a spate of deadly attacks targeting foreigners and religious minorities in the Muslim-majority country of 160 million.
